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THE cou ; -. i. -5 LITERARY NOTES. Still there in a difficulty in connection with horizontal pipes that every builder faces, and no one can say be has thor oughly conquered. The only remedy is the appropriation of a certain vertical passage in the house to purposes of plumbing, and the confinement of all plumbing to that shaft. In the old Parke r house, in Boston, there wbb a shaft perhaps twenty feet square a great room with brick walls and a sky light at the top, which was as many stories -high as was that wing of the hotel. Opening upon this were the bath rooms, and in some cases bath rooms or wash closets wero bracketed out into the shaft like bay-windows from the outer wall of the house, Against the walls of this lofty room all the upward supply and downward waste waa conducted in vertical pipes, the horizontal connections being of the very shortest, so far as concerned bath rooms, water clos.-ts and the dressing closets' which were immediately adjacent to the shaft. This being a public hotel, hori zontal supply and horizontal waste bad to be furnished to bed rooms at a dis tance from the shaft. That is a problem which is inseparable from hotel plans and hotel plants. In a dwelling house, however, things are different. Many a builder refuses to have plumbiug con nection in the rooms above bis decorated ceilings, and his objection is perfectly reasonable. Why should be not carry it a little further and refuse to have bis vestibule or pantry come down by the run? It somewhat less expensive, it is still a eerious- annoyance that an in definite quantity of watershould be let loo;e to soak through the flooring and trickle down between the beams. Bedrooms not adjacent to this vertical plumbing shaft would have to be sup plied with hot and cold water by band, and would of course be limited to the old-fashioned furniture-maker's wash stand. In England and on the conti nent, where the standard of comfort is, on the whole, so much higher than in America, even the most luxurious establishments do not have running water throughout. Every one who has travelled much in England knows how the hotels, badly supplied with food and table appointments, according to American standards, have yet in their bed rooms a display of washBtands, basins of two eizep, ewers to match, soap dishes, sponge cups, cans for hot water and portable bath tubs. Even more notable is this display in a well ap pointed English private house. The wash stand Ib a handsome table four feet long at least, with a paraput or baluster around three sides of its top, a shelf sustained by the legs a few inches from the floor, and two or three draw e s; and every part of thiB lare piece of furniture is' occupied by the neat and somewhat elegant piece of crockery,, glass and metal supposed to be needed tor the toilet. The disadvantage of such an arangement is tuat it necessi tates more B3rvi-e; but in addition to the great virtue that it makes possible the vertical arrangement of plumbing, it has one supreme advantage, namely, cleanliness. No device has yet been in vented which makes the fixed basin with running water at once convenient, inexpensive and cleanly. It may, in deed, be said that no device has yet been discovered which is simply cleanly; at least the writer has' never seen a fixed basin about which it was not easy to get up a squeamish horror. The ai range ment by which a bath tub or basin used to be ailed through the opening which led to the waste pipe seems to have gone out, and fortunately so, for this was the fllthieBt of all the appliances but the ideal form for cleanliness has not yet been Introduced. In point of fact the present intendency among the most in telligent housekeepers in America is to discard the idea that running water is necessary in all tho rooms of a house. The plumbing shafts are so arranged as to bring as many rooms bb possible ad jacent to thorn. Tho rest of the roomB of tho floor, which aro usually tho least occupied, aro supplied with water by hand. In Harper's magazine for April. eriun nif AtisMierv wjTNmiMin,Mfcj- MalVBaT VkaT BWI Vlr kW kn u.ouiaiiusenu to us, ana Z. mim wii .... . we will nil tou frSllklC. U. P. MUMI U tl iKiii aepoi aim u si; radi MopcA-HNIf IIIIIIH Hlill IAIHhjI l Han. You can examine it at your nearest frelK iuiiu prrirriir aantianarr, eiacuy as represented, ul lo autklnr-t olhfra wli as high safCO.OO, aa4 THR IKiTKSr BARIUM TOU ITER HKAHD OF, .It faar flVT,..ur Special Offer Price tIS.BD nl frclisht chorees. The mat-lilno vefiflis 'a',l relphtwlll average 7ft cunt for (Mb WOmllM. L MONTHS' TRIAL In jrour own home, and1 I6.U) any day you are not satisfied. We Mil Sir. n ai in. to, 9 10.00, 111.00, rrss Hla litkla Catslsgse, CABINET aUKDIOK frfl an isotinmuliianil the frcl GIVE. 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SBbBBbW house which controlled the submarine torpedoes, but launches could not con tend with batteries at cIobo range, and when tho work for which they came, and which had all been porformed un der a heavy fire, wai done, they with drew to the ships. Nino mou, including Lieutenant Winslow, and been wounded some seriously, and three, as whb report ed later, mortally. It was a very gallant exploit, coolly and thoroughly carried through, under a galling fire, and it succeeded in its purpose of hampering and blocking in the enemy at the im portant port of Cienf uegoB, which was the road to Havana from the south coast. It was another twist in the coil which the United States was tightening about Cuba. Culling Iht eakln unJrr fir. at CLntWfna. AfUr a drawing la IUrp.r't Mogulnt. -Cup) right, IIV,by Harper A flrulh.i,. on the southern coast of Cuba another fight was taking place, in the progieca of the work of separating the great island from the rest of the world. On the night of May 10, Captain McCalla of the Marblehead called for volunteers to protect the cable-cutters in their work. The roll was soon filled, and the next morning the steam-launcheB of the Marblehead and Nashville, towing the two sailing-launches under command of Lieutenants Window and Anderson, started into the harbor of Cienfuegos about a quarter before seven. They carried a Equad of marines picked for proficiency as marksmen, and a machine gun in the bow of each boat. The Nash ville and Marblehead then opened fire on the Spanish batteries, and under cover of this, and that of tho steam-launches, the crewB of the other boats went to work. It was a perilous business, but the Bailors grappled and cut successfully the two cable they had been ordered to destroy. They also found a small cable, but the grapnel fouled the bottom and was lost. Meantime the Spanish fire grew hotter and hotter, pouring out from the batteries and machine-guns, and the boats began to sufTer. The well-directed fire from the rides 0f the marines and from the 1-pouudere kept the Spaniards from reaching the switch The biography of Elizabeth, recently puLliBhed by Harper & Brothers under the title, The Martyrdom of an Em press, containp many interesting inci dents and adventures of which th"e em press was tho heroine during her long and eventful life. Elizabeth and her constant companion, the author, used to dteguirje themselves and visit the slums of the cities, nursing the sick and com forting the afll'cted. One night they were riding through tho outskirts of Pesth when they heard a woman's screams from a rickety hovel. "On the impulse of the moment," says the author, "we both leaped from our horses, and rushing to the door and pushing it open wo found ourselves in a villanously dirty room where a huge ruffian of a man was dragging a woman about the floor by her luxuriant, un bounded hair, kicking her vigorously as he did so. Before I realized what was happening the emprees had laid her heavy hunting crop about the fellow's face, and so surprised was he at our un expected appearance, and at this vigor ous onslaught, that he dropped his vic tim and stared at ub in blank amaze ment, Hie astonishment waB, however, as nothing to ours when the illused dame Bprang to her feet, and, putting her armB akimbo, demanded, in her shrillest Hungarian, and with a torrent of invectives, what 'we hussies' jneant by interfering with her husband, The empress burst into a peal of laughter, and taking from her habit a couple of gold ten gullen pieces, she handed them to this model benedict, exclaiming, 'Beat her, my friend; beat her all she wants. She deserves it for being so loyal to you.' " Mra. 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